Construction work — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 45 (Construction work) in the last 12 months, in aggregate — by council, competition type and threshold level. Individual awards are on the filtered search and browse page.
Supplier identity is never aggregated on this page — a winning bidder's name is often a person's name, not a company's, so it follows the same registered-access rule as the browse page's supplier search.
Last 12 months
Since October 2025: 1,427 awards worth £28,826,810,495 combined.
Framework agreements can dominate a year's total: A large share of awarded value comes from framework agreements, whose published value is often the framework's ceiling — the maximum that can be drawn down over its full, often multi-year, lifetime — rather than money spent in the year it was awarded. Checked directly against real data: a single council's own largest year can be dominated by framework agreements alone. A single large framework can make one year look far larger than its neighbours without that reflecting actual annual spend.
Top councils by value
| Council | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Leeds | £1,533,254,620 | 8 |
| Birmingham | £320,000,000 | 2 |
| Blackpool | £200,000,000 | 2 |
| Pembrokeshire | £186,701,487 | 28 |
| Wolverhampton | £173,341,647 | 9 |
| Rushmoor | £147,987,583 | 1 |
| Tower Hamlets | £137,940,000 | 5 |
| Westminster | £85,387,689 | 2 |
| Eastbourne | £81,580,985 | 4 |
| Portsmouth | £65,000,000 | 1 |
Based on the 16% of Construction work awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £21,245,267,772 | 982 |
| selective | £6,422,682,028 | 126 |
| direct | £1,091,340,775 | 143 |
| limited | £61,832,787 | 149 |
| Not recorded | £5,687,134 | 27 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Competitive flexible procedure | £18,105,468,208 | 215 |
| Open procedure | £8,977,241,518 | 457 |
| Direct award | £1,025,932,438 | 59 |
| Award under framework | £307,377,988 | 15 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £265,808,787 | 405 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £65,408,337 | 84 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £61,832,787 | 149 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £12,053,299 | 16 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £5,687,134 | 27 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| works | £25,926,816,455 | 1,308 |
| services | £2,882,224,044 | 112 |
| goods | £17,769,996 | 7 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 62 of 1,195 contracts with a recorded bid count (5%) had only one bid. See these contracts → The single-bid-rate ranking shows a different figure for the same measure — it uses a fixed calendar year, not the trailing 12 months shown here.
Figures published by UK Find a Tender Service and Contracts Finder (OCDS award notices). Accessed 2026-10-18.